smelted

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Mike Piazza, the slugger expensively coached from boyhood in the modern manner, saw “the silver spoons of his youth smelted into the first of ten consecutive Silver Slugger awards.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Some waste, for example, is deliberately mislabelled as "second-hand electronic goods for re-sale", only to be smashed up, recycled and smelted once it reaches its destination.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2025

Which metal is smelted using the Hall-Héroult process?

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2024

A large wooden bucket had been kept within, containing several damaged bronze objects and worn axe-heads, waiting to be smelted down and recycled into new tools.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024

He had smelted Mrs. O’Leary’s favorite bronze chewing bone.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan